2 week agoSyria: government keeps bombing N. Hama countryside with MLRS from Lataminah to W. outskirts of Atshan. A rocket also fell in vicinity of TSK Observation Post near Morek. Russia n drone flying over area.
Mayor of Volokolamsk, Moscow region, Russia, resigned today. He supported local residents who had been staging multiple environmental protests against the Yadrovo solid waste landfill in vicinity of the historic town
2 week agoZIL plant is on fire in Moscow
2 week agoReporter of Russian NTV Federal channel Nikita Razvozhaev has committed suicide this morning. Famous for his report on Russian air-borne troops day
Russian Foreign Ministry: without refusal of NATO to confront there can be no a return to normal relations
Kremlin spokesman: Moscow will brief the Syrian authorities on the outcome of the Istanbul Quartet summit.
Talks on Syria will be held in Astana in late November - early December - Russian deputy MFA Bogdanov
2 week agoHungary's prosecutors no longer investigating the 'visa factory' operating at the country's Moscow embassy
Russian strategic aviation airborne: at least three units
Russian Government Communications relay plane Tu214SR RA64527 RSD049
Investigation: Russian charged as secret agent, Maria Butina, studied US groups' cyberdefenses for student project.
3 week agoRussia unveils Iskander (SS-26) missiles in broad daylight, after President Putin's threat to "target European countries if they host US nuclear missiles".
The council of teips representatives in Ingushetia, expressed lack of confidence in the president Yevkurov and demanded the return to direct president elections and change the law of elections to the regional parliament.
3 week agoToday in Russia, 14 people have reportedly been detained in Moscow and 44 in St.Petersburg at the protests over the dubious extremism charges against young people in the New Greatness and Network cases
3 week agoOver 40 protesters against police repression were detained in StPetersburg; the unauthorised protest in Moscow is still ongoing which means detentions are likely there too
3 week agoPouya Air IL76 EP-PUS Iranian heavy lift airborne from Moscow
3 week agoIn St. Petersburg, Russia, the police detained 5 protesters who joined one-person pickets in protest of the government persecution of Novoye Velichie and Set' opposition movements:
3 week agoRussia has notified their intention to conduct rocket (missile) tests off the coast of Norway on November 1st thru 3rd. That's in the same time frame and area as NATO #TridentJuncture2018.
Russia deployed new electronic warfare complex "Samarkand" in Kaliningrad region
Airborne from Latakia AB, Syria Russia Russian Air Force Tu154 RA85155 CHD9009
KCNA: "A delegation of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK led by Vice-Minister Sin Hong Chol left here Saturday to attend the vice-minister-level negotiations between the DPRK and Russian foreign ministries."
3 week agoTurkey, Russia, Germany and France in a joint statement called for a constitutional committee on Syria for free and fair elections in the war-torn nation. The countries attended a summit on Syria's future hosted by Turkey
3 week agoAn @OSCE_SMM long-range drone was downed after Russia jammed it with its EW systems while filming a convoy crossing from Russia into Ukraine at night. The OSCE recently relaunched its long-range drones after a couple years of inactivity (because Russia kept shooting/jamming them)
3 week agoErdogan gives the opening speech for the Syria summit with Russia, Germany and France. He hopes for fruitful decisions about the future of Syria.
3 week agoFour-way Syria summit attended by leaders of Turkey, Russia, Germany and France kicks off in Istanbul
60 wounded, 6 killed, 2 missed as result of flooding in Krasnodar Krai of Russia
Russian Foreign Ministry: Russia and the United States have a different attitude towards war
De Mistura will attend Istanbul summit on Syria today; he will brief leaders of Russia, France, Germany Turkey; ask them to "seize opportunity" of relative calm in rebel-held Idlib anduse their influence to push for speedy solution on composition of constitutional committee
Ukrainian refugees in Russia tell Kommersant that they are increasingly under pressure to return to Ukraine. More than 100,000 Ukrainians have received temporary asylum in Russia since 2014, according to official Russian statistics
3 week agoThe northern ice is melting fast, meaning the scramble for the top of the globe may accelerate. With new sea routes opening up, oil and gas waiting to be discovered, the biggest winner of this evolving situation is likely to be Russia
